Australian Energy Market Operator

AEMO operates Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM), the interconnected power system in Australia’s eastern and south-eastern seaboard, and the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) and power system in Western Australia.

AEMO operates gas retail markets in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia. AEMO also operates wholesale gas markets in south-eastern Australia, those being the Declared Wholesale Gas Market in Victoria (DWGM), the Short Term Trading Market in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney (STTM), and the Gas Supply Hub (GSH), whose trading locations are based at Wallumbilla in Queensland, and Moomba in South Australia. AEMO also operates the Natural Gas Services Bulletin Board (GBB), and is system operator of the Victorian Gas Declared Transmission System. AEMO is also responsible for Gas Services Information functions in Western Australia.

This Procedure documents the process AEMO has to follow to determine the Tranche 2 and Tranche 3 DSM Dispatch Payments that will be paid to DSM Providers for the decrease in energy consumption (in MWh) when a DSP is dispatched. Further, it outlines the process AEMO has to follow to adjust the calculation of the DSM Dispatch Payments in case the number of DSM Capacity Credits assigned to a DSP changes during a Capacity Year

This Procedure documents the processes to be followed by:
a) Market Customers in providing information relating to their loads and demand side management arrangements for the determination of their IRCR on an annual basis and/or on a monthly basis.
b) AEMO in requesting information from Market Customers in respect of determination of the yearly IRCR and in calculating and publishing the Monthly IRCR.

This sets out the process that System Management will follow in preparing and verifying the Generating Facility Output derived from System Management’s SCADA system and used to assess EGC facility MWh output data, Non-EGC MWh output data, and the operational System Load Estimate.

This Procedure specifies the information that a Network Operator must provide to System Management for each of its Networks, the processes to be followed by Network Operators and AEMO, and the technical and communication criteria that must be met.

This Procedure documents the process Market Participants must follow in applying for Certified Reserve Capacity or Early Certified Reserve Capacity, and AEMO must follow in processing those applications, including to assign Certified Reserve Capacity, set Reserve Capacity Obligation Quantities, and approve Early Certified Reserve Capacity.

This Procedure covers how Rule Participants propose the level of Certified Reserve Capacity intended to be traded bilaterally and how AEMO processes the declaration and assigns Certified Reserve Capacity.

This Procedure describes the process that AEMO and System Management must follow in acquiring Eligible Services, entering into the Supplementary Capacity Contract, and determining the Maximum Contract Value per hour of availability for any Supplementary Capacity Contract.